Funeral Sociology 2-3

Physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, self-actualization

Describe Maslow’s Needs Hierarchy from bottom to top.

Self actualization

The desire to become everything one is capable of becoming.

Funeral

Serves as the first function of the NEW family unit to re-establish security.

Modernization. Urbanization, industrialization, bureaucratization

What has led to the shift from extended family systems to more nuclear family systems? What are the primary reasons for this change?

Urbanization

The change in society from rural to urban in character.

Industrialization

Individual crafting of products is replaced by manufacture of goods utilizing mass production techniques.

Bureaucratization

The creation of a system which governs through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routine.

Agrarian

Dealing with agriculture or farm based. The locale of the extended joint family system.

Cultural assimilation

The process by which a person or group’s language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group.

Mobility

The state or quality of being mobile; the ability to move from place to place readily.

Neo-localism

The movement of families from the area in which they were born.

Social mobility

Movement of a person or family within the social classes of their society.

Social stratification

Categorization of people by money, prestige and power; a ranking of social status in groups such as upper, middle and lower class.

Thanatology

The study of death.

Thanatos, Greek god of death

Thanatology is derived from what name?

Socioeconomics

Study of the relationship between economic factors and social philosophy, ethics, and human dignity.

Freedom of choice, class or social level, economic position

A family may select a funeral rite based on 3 areas of socioeconomics:

South, West

Traditional funerals are more popular in the ___ while memorial services and cremation are more common in the ___.

North

Full couch caskets are more popular in the ___.

Judeo-Christian

What is the majority religion in the United States?

Doctrine of atonement

States that the created is reunited with its creator at death.